Bethuel

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

"The Syrian" (Aramite).

1. Nahor's son by Miclah, nephew of Abraham, father of Rebekah ( Genesis 22:22-23;  Genesis 24:15;  Genesis 24:24;  Genesis 24:47;  Genesis 28:2). Bethuel appears personally only in  Genesis 24:50, and then after his son. Blunt (Undesigned Coincidences) notices Bethuel's consistent insignificance in the whole affair of his daughter's marriage. When Abraham's servant at the well asks Rebekah, "Is there room in thy father's house for us?" she "ran and told them of her mother's house" (not of her father's, as Rachel did when Jacob introduced himself:  Genesis 29:12).

Laban her brother ran out and invited him in, not Bethuel, the natural person to do it. The servant makes presents of jewels and precious things to Rebekah, "and to her brother, and to her mother," but not to Bethuel. The brother and mother propose her abiding a few days before going. Finally, in the next generation, Rebekah's son, in inquiring after his kindred, asks, "Know ye Laban, the son of Nahor?" the father's name being omitted and the grandfather's substituted ( Genesis 29:5). The consistency of omission is too marked to be accidental, and yet such as a forger would never have devised. Bethuel was probably incapable, from age or imbecility, of managing his own affairs; but see Laban. (See Laban .)

2. A place (See Bethul .) ( 1 Chronicles 4:30).

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

BETHUEL . 1 . The son of Nahor and Milcah, nephew of Abraham, and father of Laban and Rebekah (  Genesis 22:23;   Genesis 24:15;   Genesis 24:24;   Genesis 24:47;   Genesis 24:50;   Genesis 25:20;   Genesis 28:2;   Genesis 28:5 ). In   Genesis 28:5 (P [Note: Priestly Narrative.] ) he is called ‘Bethuel the Syrian.’ 2 .   1 Chronicles 4:30; or Bethul (  Joshua 19:4 ). See Bethel, 2 .

Easton's Bible Dictionary

A southern city of Judah ( 1 Chronicles 4:30 ); called also Bethul ( Joshua 19:4 ) and Bethel (12:16;  1 Samuel 30:27 ).

Copyright Statement These dictionary topics are from M.G. Easton M.A., D.D., Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Third Edition, published by Thomas Nelson, 1897. Public Domain.

Bibliography Information Easton, Matthew George. Entry for 'Bethuel'. Easton's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ebd/b/bethuel.html. 1897.

Holman Bible Dictionary

 Genesis 22:22 Genesis 24:15 24:67 Genesis 25:20 Genesis 24:29 Genesis 24:55 Genesis 27:43 Genesis 29:5 Genesis 28:5  Genesis 22:22-23 2 1 Chronicles 4:30 Joshua 19:4

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Be'thuel. (Dweller In God). The son of Nahor, by Milcah; nephew of Abraham, and father of Rebekah,  Genesis 22:22-23;  Genesis 24:15;  Genesis 24:24;  Genesis 24:47;  Genesis 28:2. In  Genesis 25:20 and  Genesis 28:5, he is called "Bethuel, the Syrian."

Morrish Bible Dictionary

Son of Nahor, a Syrian, Abraham's brother, and father of Rebekah.  Genesis 22:22,23;  Genesis 24:15-47;  Genesis 25:20;  Genesis 28:2,5 .

Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary

the son of Nahor and Milcah. He was Abraham's nephew, and father to Laban and Rebekah, the wife of Isaac,  Genesis 22:20;  Genesis 22:23 .

Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature

Bethu´el, son of Abraham's brother Nahor, and father of Laban and of Rebecca, whom Isaac married ( Genesis 22:22-23).